Barry Weiss

Sure, there's the wealthy donor class perspective on it, but there's also, you know, Altadena, this is not Malibu. This is not the Palisades. Like, these are middle, like, solidly middle-class people. And if I'm them, and if my home is just burned to the ground—oh, and by the way, I'm thinking about this guy who went to the French Laundry or whatever it was in the middle of COVID—

Someone can fact check me on that, but I think memory serves. That was right. Yeah. Like, why am I voting for the person that is so out of touch with my everyday concerns? Just as an example, though, of like, there's been a lot that we've published and a lot of commentary, I think, over the past, since the election in November on the vibe shift, right?

Someone can fact check me on that, but I think memory serves. That was right. Yeah. Like, why am I voting for the person that is so out of touch with my everyday concerns? Just as an example, though, of like, there's been a lot that we've published and a lot of commentary, I think, over the past, since the election in November on the vibe shift, right?

Someone can fact check me on that, but I think memory serves. That was right. Yeah. Like, why am I voting for the person that is so out of touch with my everyday concerns? Just as an example, though, of like, there's been a lot that we've published and a lot of commentary, I think, over the past, since the election in November on the vibe shift, right?

Culturally and politically and, you know, woke is fading. People are moving to the right. You guys know this conversation. Right. One piece of evidence just of how quickly things can shift is Maria Shriver, hardly a Republican conservative, is on Twitter talking about how Los Angeles and California needs radical change in the wake of this.

Culturally and politically and, you know, woke is fading. People are moving to the right. You guys know this conversation. Right. One piece of evidence just of how quickly things can shift is Maria Shriver, hardly a Republican conservative, is on Twitter talking about how Los Angeles and California needs radical change in the wake of this.

Culturally and politically and, you know, woke is fading. People are moving to the right. You guys know this conversation. Right. One piece of evidence just of how quickly things can shift is Maria Shriver, hardly a Republican conservative, is on Twitter talking about how Los Angeles and California needs radical change in the wake of this.

I have friends in L.A., progressives, texting me, I guess I'm a Republican now. In other words, they are so fed up It's not that they're Republican on any particular policy issue. It's that they are so disgusted, Brianna, with, you know, one party rule and the corruption of it that they're just like, done. I'll vote for anything else that's not this. Do you see that happening?

I have friends in L.A., progressives, texting me, I guess I'm a Republican now. In other words, they are so fed up It's not that they're Republican on any particular policy issue. It's that they are so disgusted, Brianna, with, you know, one party rule and the corruption of it that they're just like, done. I'll vote for anything else that's not this. Do you see that happening?

I have friends in L.A., progressives, texting me, I guess I'm a Republican now. In other words, they are so fed up It's not that they're Republican on any particular policy issue. It's that they are so disgusted, Brianna, with, you know, one party rule and the corruption of it that they're just like, done. I'll vote for anything else that's not this. Do you see that happening?

One last question on this, and then I want to move on to another topic that's been engulfing the conversation in a different way. I've been thinking a lot about the fact that the paradox, and it goes like this. We live in a world in which private companies and very determined individuals are able to create rocket ships that return to Earth and are caught by giant chopsticks. Okay?

One last question on this, and then I want to move on to another topic that's been engulfing the conversation in a different way. I've been thinking a lot about the fact that the paradox, and it goes like this. We live in a world in which private companies and very determined individuals are able to create rocket ships that return to Earth and are caught by giant chopsticks. Okay?

One last question on this, and then I want to move on to another topic that's been engulfing the conversation in a different way. I've been thinking a lot about the fact that the paradox, and it goes like this. We live in a world in which private companies and very determined individuals are able to create rocket ships that return to Earth and are caught by giant chopsticks. Okay?

There's people talking legitimately, and I didn't used to believe this, about colonizing Mars. Like, that seems within the realm of possibility in our lifetime. But at the same moment that that kind of technological progress is possible... One of the greatest states in the union, a state that is the fifth largest economy in the world, is not able to contain a fire.

There's people talking legitimately, and I didn't used to believe this, about colonizing Mars. Like, that seems within the realm of possibility in our lifetime. But at the same moment that that kind of technological progress is possible... One of the greatest states in the union, a state that is the fifth largest economy in the world, is not able to contain a fire.

There's people talking legitimately, and I didn't used to believe this, about colonizing Mars. Like, that seems within the realm of possibility in our lifetime. But at the same moment that that kind of technological progress is possible... One of the greatest states in the union, a state that is the fifth largest economy in the world, is not able to contain a fire.

This is not a political question, I guess, so much as a cultural one. But what does that mean? Is that a failure of priorities or is it that everyone that's smart and competent fails? runs as far away as possible from government? And if so, how do we change that? I've just been thinking about that a lot. It's like we live in an era of Starlink and SpaceX and choose your other thing.

This is not a political question, I guess, so much as a cultural one. But what does that mean? Is that a failure of priorities or is it that everyone that's smart and competent fails? runs as far away as possible from government? And if so, how do we change that? I've just been thinking about that a lot. It's like we live in an era of Starlink and SpaceX and choose your other thing.

This is not a political question, I guess, so much as a cultural one. But what does that mean? Is that a failure of priorities or is it that everyone that's smart and competent fails? runs as far away as possible from government? And if so, how do we change that? I've just been thinking about that a lot. It's like we live in an era of Starlink and SpaceX and choose your other thing.

And also we live in an era in which I saw this unbelievably emblematic photo in which a person in L.A. was trying to put out a fire in his backyard with cartons of oat milk because there was presumably no water in the hose. That's unbelievable. What explains that?